Continued Crackdown on Clerics and Freedom of Religion and Assembly
27 July 2016 – The Bahraini government has intensified state restrictions on the right to freedom of religion for the country’s Shia majority. While the
27 July 2016 – The Bahraini government has intensified state restrictions on the right to freedom of religion for the country’s Shia majority. While the
18 July 2016 – The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy is extremely concerned after Bahrain’s Public Prosecution yesterday charged Nazeeha Saeed, correspondent for France24, with illegally reporting
12 July 2016 – The High Criminal Court today postponed the trial of prominent Human Rights Defender Nabeel Rajab, President of Bahrain Center for Human
UPDATE: 29 June 2016 – Nabeel Rajab was released back to the West Riffa Police Station. His family report that he is tired and in
27 June 2016 – Human rights defender Nabeel Rajab faces up to 13 years in prison after Bahrain’s Public Prosecution referred old expression-related cases to
14 March 2016 – Bahraini security forces today raided the house of human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja and arrested her with her 15 months old
24 February 2016 – Bahrain’s fourth criminal court today sentenced leading opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif to one year in prison for allegedly “inciting hatred against
On 3 February 2016, a Bahraini court upheld photographer Ahmed al-Fardan’s three-month prison sentence on charges of “attempting” to protest. We condemn the Bahraini authorities’
We, the undersigned civil society groups working to promote and defend freedom of expression worldwide, write to you to condemn the ongoing harassment of human
Updates 5 April 2015 – The appeal hearing for Nabeel Rajab that was pushed from 15 April to today was once again postponed to